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Mandatory Voting? The Horror!!!

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Sen. Kay Hagan Barred From Senate Pool So Male Senators Could...

We already knew that the U.S. Senate is sexist -- very. We wrote about this problem last year when Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) spoke...

5 Ways Republicans Can Be ‘Not Scary’

Don't be scary. That is one of Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.)?first edicts to his underlings. Imagine that. The newbie Senate Majority Leader knows that Republicans...

Lindsey Graham: Bill Addressing Military Rape Only A ‘Political Cause’

About 20,000 women and men in the U.S. armed forces were subject to sexual crimes this year, ranging from aggravated sexual assault to abusive...

GOP Voted Against These 8 Bills To Help Veterans

An informative blog was written over at Daily Kos by War on Error about bills the GOP has voted against to support veterans. Personally,...

White Evangelicals Dwindling In South And They’re Taking The GOP Edge...

// // A number of pollsters are suggesting that the Republicans could very well take the Senate in a couple of weeks--enough that Nate...
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NC GOP Senate Candidate Thom Tillis Exposed As Being Anti-Women

As I mentioned last week, North Carolina state house speaker Thom Tillis may have been caught in a macaca moment from two years ago....
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North Carolina GOP Senate Candidate Thom Tillis Doesn’t Think Blacks And...

North Carolina state house speaker Thom Tillis, the Republican seeking to deny Kay Hagan a second term in the U.S. Senate, is under fire...
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Iowa GOP Sen. Candidate: Elliot Rodger Shooting Spree An ‘Unfortunate Accident’

One of the Republicans running to succeed Tom Harkin as the junior Senator from Iowa is in full damage control mode after referring to...
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Your Kids Have To Know These 7 Things About Politics

  Most kids don't know a lot about politics, but there are a few things that you should make sure your kids know. It doesn't...
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Nebraska GOP Sen. Nominee: Religious Beliefs Justify Breaking Any Law

Yesterday, Nebraska Republicans chose Ben Sasse as their nominee in the race to succeed Mike Johanns in the Senate. Sasse rode the endorsement of...

Lindsey Graham Uses Senate Judiciary Hearing To Complain About His Crappy...

Today during an important Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Comcast and Time Warner plied their case for permission to merge their two companies into an...

Michigan GOP Senate Candidate: Women Are More Interested In Job Flexibility...

Yesterday, American Bridge 21st Century, a Democratic-leaning think tank, launched an effort to call out prominent Republicans for opposing equal pay for women. One...

Who The Hell Is Chris Wahmhoff?

Four years ago Chris Wahmhoff did what all seasoned activists do without even realizing it -- he decided to tend after his own garden,...

A Cheney With An Exit Strategy

In an unexpected development, Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, dropped her bid for a U.S. Senate seat out of Wyoming....

1.3 Million Unemployed Losing Benefits Today

Roughly 1.3 million people will be losing their unemployment benefits today, with many more to come if Congress does not vote to extend the...

A Filibuster-Free Senate Sounds Fabulous For Now

A filibuster-free Senate's needed today, but what about tomorrow OK, the filibuster's dead and it's about time. President Barack Obama has the right to make executive...

Boehner Helps Illinois Hate Group

Republican Senator Mark Kirk was a Teabully favorite when he was elected to in 2010.? But then, in January 2102, Senator Kirk suffered a...

Farm Subsidies And Billionaires: Who’s Getting Rich Off Of Welfare?

Farm subsidies started out as a?way to help hard-scrabble, family run farms, and this is what most of us think of when we hear...